I screenshot this rather then reblogged this from the original post it was connected to because I wish to respect the person who this ask was sent to boundaries.

I have to ask @asexualautistic how do expect to enter our community wanting to join our family and not understand the deep and meaningful ties that we as a 4,000 year old people have with our Homeland.

Not understand just how many of our Holidays are intertwined with the land itself. That when we pray we pray in the direction of Jerusalem.

That there is a famous poetic line that we often say, "my body is in the west and my heart is in the east." This was written by the Sephardic 12th Century poet Yehuda Halevi יהודה הלוי, who is consider one of greatest Jewish poets.

To have such a fundamental lack understanding about us as people and our connection to where we come from and our long held desire to return there. A desire we have always held even when we in chains weeping on shores by the river of Babylon.

Every Pesach we end the Seder by saying Next Year in Jerusalem L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָלָיִם and we say the same to end every Yom Kippur.

The land was named with the same name as us before we ever entered Diaspora.

So come into our homes and our places of worship and then accuse us of Genocide is just not just high handed, but it is cruel and lacking decency.

We are a people who survived multiple Genocides and to accuse of supporting Genocide is just I really find myself at a loss for words.

We are people who hold life to be so precious, to be so important, to be so valued that we are obligated to forsake 610 of the 613 mitzvot.

So to take us as a whole, as a group, as a people and to just make such a judgement call, to have such a lack of understanding about us, and to not understand the reality of what is even going on in the region, what makes something a Genocide, have understanding, compassion, or empathy for the great pain and trauma that Jews are under going right now, and just so much more.

And you want in to our family.

Let me explain and expand on what I mean.

White Evangelical American Christians are incredibly, horrendously, viciously racist and xenophobic, as a rule. "Christian", for them, is more of a cultural marker than a religious one, but they're still ostensibly Christian. So how do you reconcile "The Sheep And The Goats" from the Christian Bible and the repeated explicit instructions to "welcome the stranger" with the fact that an overwhelming majority of White American Christians support "rounding up undocumented immigrants and putting them into militarized camps"?

Well, it's simple.

You cut those bits out from your religion because they're unacceptable to your politics. You, to borrow the words of another poster on this site, "chisel god down to fit into a box."

when they try to disprove ur point by calling u hysterical

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hey there delilah

PARTY. ROCK. ANTHEM

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Now You’re Gone

Ramp! The Logical Song

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Wherever You Will Go

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Greatest Day

All I Ever Wanted

All The Things She Said

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this is super funny but also so incredibly sad…the way so many men simply do not give a fuck. also the comments…disturbing.

Or they're humiliating their wives on purpose which is even worse.

I hope when its their turn to stay overnight in hospital their wives bring them a jock strap and a pair of gardening gloves to wear 😡

- what is comfortable

- what is practical

- what is appropriate

Which means if he brings you a bathing suit bottom and an off the shoulder sweater he is disrespecting you.